Paper Gems: The Hideaway

While doing research for ‘southern voices’ as I was writing Soul of Stone; April 10, I discovered that the Usa Today best selling author Lauren K. Denton was from Alabama. Her first book The Hideaway is a story of two women, grandmother and granddaughter, who find out the truth about each other and their pasts when Mags’ dies and her distant grandchild takes over her eccentric bed and breakfast and the montage of guests who’ve kept the old woman’s secrets for nearly 50 years. The author’s roots in Sweet Bay, Alabama brought this section of Mobile Bay alive through her characters and time periods. Her use of southern traditions like canary cake and sweet tea gave it a southern flare, but her love stories of sacrifice, loss and love of self and the courage to follow your heart were what drew me into the story. When all is lost with the man of her dreams, the parallels she draws with a man she never knew gave emotional insights into this story that were well worth the price of the book. Lauren K. Denton is a wonderful story teller, an emotional writer and a perfect example of clean romance without being spiritual, inspirational or sweet. You can find Lauren’s books on her website laurenkdenton.com on amazon.com, i-tunes, bnn.com as well as where other books are sold. Her newest novel, Hurricane Season comes out April 3rd promises to be another winner! Paper Gems is a book review post on Writing Blind that will take place whenever you as the reader would like an author or book reviewed. Join my mailing list to recommend books you’d like to see, to ask for reviews on your published work, or to add your thoughts and opinions to this blind lady’s impressions. Keep Reading and writing!

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A dream is a fragile thing. It is a wisp of smoke that appears as real as flesh when you’re just a child. Mine began that way. A song, a story, poetry… Then I went blind. Yes, physically blind at the age of 23. Wouldn’t you know it, without ‘seeing’ reality, the smoke became what was real.
Today, my world is dreams, fantasy and fiction. A much more beautiful place to live. I’m the author of Killing Casanova, Burning Bridger, and the forthcoming Soul of Stone (April 2018), all in the non-explicit romantic suspense genre. My novels are about the healing true love brings to any life shattered by trauma if you believe in the power of Love! I live in a cozy town north of Las Vegas NV with the loves of my life, my husband and three sons. Finding peace and joy with my boys inspires, drives and comforts me, making it possible to live the dream.